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Sunday, November 16, 2025
TopicFake news

Topic: fake news

Photoshopped image of PM Modi wearing Muslim skull cap shared on social media

Pictures tweeted from PM’s official handle show that Modi wasn’t wearing a skullcap while exchanging greetings with the Syedna, the head of the Dawoodi Bohras.

India’s young audience is mature, but storytellers haven’t done enough: Neelesh Misra

Gaon Connection founder Neelesh Misra shares his ideas about content creation, fake news and journalism.

Hoaxposed: Video of children twerking in school is actually from Cuba

The video went viral in India on the back of claims that it happens in the country’s ‘convent’ schools.

Real news can be a bigger problem than fake news

The world of the internet — a world of information — is giving us more truth than we can handle, which explains the decline of the liberal world order.

Profit-making and commercial biases influence news feeds on Google, Facebook and Twitter

Big tech companies must reinvent their business models with clear emphasis on policy and responsibility, and hold powerful algorithm creators accountable.

HoaXposed: Man beating a ‘naga sadhu’ in viral video is not a Muslim

The video with a polarising caption tweeted by Imam Tawhidi was also shared by actress Koena Mitra on Twitter. New Delhi: A video of a naga...

Indian heads of social media platforms likely to be punished if fake news not checked

A panel headed by Rajnath Sigh is like to recommend action against social media platforms if they do not remove objectionable content from their site.

Former pilot ‘followed by Modi’ & SC lawyer want to be India’s media vigilantes

Duo is in the process of registering NGO, India Against Biased Media, already filed cases against actor Swara Bhaskar, YouTuber Dhruv Rathee.

Kerala is not facing Lord Ayyappa’s wrath, flood video is from Mexico

The video, being shared on Twitter, falsely claims that a Hindu deity's wrath over the Sabarimala Temple case has caused the Kerala floods.

Delhi Police now has a secret weapon to counter fake news

It has a rather banal name, but Delhi Police has a set of wheels every bit as cool as the Batmobile, and it is being used to catch culprits unleashing mayhem from the anonymous annals of cyberspace.

On Camera

What Pakistan Supreme Court judge Mansoor Ali Shah wrote in his resignation letter

The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.